Epilogue
As I began working on this project, I was confronted by a
plethora of questions that emerged from the many stories I encountered. Why is it that the systems of organisation I was taught were rendered useless in a context such as this? Why is it that I don’t imagine my home in the same way a Warli imagines? Why do I imagine caste and other social categories so differently as opposed to the people in this region? Why do I find an opaque curtain between me and the other people over here? At the first glance, one might find these questions quite irrelevant. But they are important questions, for they are the probes that we use to study the difference in the different schools of thought. The point of this intervention was to examine if these sociocultural practices formed a symbiotic relationship with the lived environment or not. The stories that were mentioned earlier aim at establishing this exact relationship. One realises that it is not always merely blind faith that makes up such stories, but rather a sense of deep rooted purpose that exists within the realm of the people that share this relationship with the forest, the form of which will always remain an area of contention for naturalist modes.
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